David A. Wheeler

Mr. David A. Wheeler is a well-known expert in developing secure software and open source software. His works on security include the book “Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO,” his developerWorks column "Secure Programmer," and the article “Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC).” He is a co-author of the NDIA document “Engineering for System Assurance,” and the author of “Why Open Source Software? Look at the Numbers!” His works on open source software and the U.S. government include “Open Source Software (OSS) in U.S. Government Acquisitions” (Software Tech News, Vol. 10, No. 2) and the Data & Analysis Center for Software (DACS) webinar on “Open Source Software (OSS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)”.